Many years ago, while navigating across the Caribbean, I wrote a song with my heart for a girl who never loved me. I remember that, when I finished it, I run to ask one of the Hungarian musicians working on the European Vision -the ship I used to work at that time- if I could [...]
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We spend most of our lives asking ourselves if we do things right or wrong… and the fear to do them wrong prevents us from improving. Likewise, we sometimes fear to do them right. We have to be aware that we can take advantage of the instruments and resources we have at a certain moment, [...] It is always a pleasure and a privilege to share music conversations with Rachel Flowers. Here you find an excerpt of one those conversations, in this case, on Keith Emerson´s Rondo. Keith Emerson is one of Rachel´s favorite musicians. Rachel is a tremendous young musician. She plays a variety of instruments and has a promising musical [...] One of my professional goals is to make people aware of their potential, so that they can give a response (responsibility) and get there where they really want to. I love music and I decided to record this video covering a well-known tune by U2 With or without you. U2. You can do anything better. Do what [...] Michael Thallium I have no words, just emotions. Today, while I was navigating on the Internet, I got to know the story of Rachel Flowers. It all began a couple of weeks ago when I finished reading “Musicophilia”, the excellent book by Oliver Sacks. Then I started finding out about the “savant” and all those stories of mental [...] Richard Strauss wrote his last four songs when he was 84. He used poems by his old friend Herman Hesse. With this last song by Richard Strauss, which he wrote in September 1948, one year before he passed away, I would like to wish you a blissful September month. Summer is almost over… but dreams, [...] Three months ago I wrote about the Playing for Change Foundation and their wonderful initiative to change the world through music. Today, I would like to remember the song with which I came to know this nice movement of street musicians around the world. It is a version of the famous song “Stand by me”, [...] “I will never say something which cannot stand as the last thing I said, I promise.” If you want to understand this sentence, then, please, pay attention to the next video of Benjaming Zander coming from TED.com where he speaks about music, passion and shiny eyes. At the end of the talk, you will understand [...] I have some very good Scottish friends. I consider them as my second family. This may be the reason why my attention tends to focus on any word related to Scottland. If I also say that one of the subjects I most deal with is the “activ listening” (a must in coaching) and that one [...] |
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